"The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics."

“If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.”

Source : Time Magazine (1984), later quoted in Jonathon Lazear and Wendy Lazear "Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much" (p. 22), 1993.

“Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.”

“We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have...”

“For a small open economy such as Cyprus, the euro adoption provides protection against international financial turmoil, which often has a disproportionate effect on smaller economies.”

Source : "The Successful Entry of Cyprus Into the Euro Area". Speech at the Conference “Welcoming Cyprus to the euro area” Nicosia, www.ecb.europa.eu. January 18, 2008.

“The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.”

“Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's no longer "in the closet," as it were. It's part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature. The same questions are there in Native American languages, they're there in native Canadian languages, they're there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish. So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.”

“In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.”

“Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.”

Source : Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.13, HarperCollins UK